The Max Level Hero Has Returned!-Chapter 1241

The streamer forums were in chaos following the unexpected on-stream incident.

[Quick summary of Eva’s stream for you trolls]

- Those who watched the stream already know, but yeah, we just had a bombing happen in Korea. It sounds like a joke because the target was a streamer, but when that streamer is Eva, it’s a whole different story.

- Honestly, there are tons of sus things about it. How they found where she lived, how the bomb was planted and detonated so precisely. Doesn't seem like a prank, since there were so many eyewitness reports of the blast. In the clip, you can even see Eva spread her wings on the rooftop and fly off.

- The point is, someone actually tried to bomb Eva. Like, for real.

It was an incident far too big to cover up.

There had been a past explosion incident at a cafe involving Marky, or more precisely, Chandra. Yet this time, it was different, leading to all sorts of speculation.

[What a wild life. She walked straight into a bomb blast and came out fine lmao.]

[Wtf, dumbass! You wanted a kid to get hurt, you psycho?]

[It’s just a figure of speech. But seriously, what kind of little kid talks that fluently to begin with? And besides, she’s not even human! When she handled that gate incident the American S-rank fighters couldn’t, I realized that she might not be exactly on the Saint of Tionis’s level, but she’s surely a monster in her own right.]

[Here come the Eva haters again. Someone almost got hurt, yo. Have some damn respect.]

[Like you do?]

[LOL]

Most viewers were genuinely concerned about the explosion, though others treated it as an opportunity to stir up drama. A few even crossed the line entirely in their responses.

[At least there were no casualties.]

[Yeah, but honestly, isn't she just a walking liability? She’s got enemies all over the world, and she draws attention constantly. I can’t even believe she thought it’d be alright for her to live among other civilians.]

[Wow, another crazy hater over here. Have you considered that it’s none of your business how someone lives???? Did you pay her rent or something?]

[No, but let’s be real. This time we got lucky, and there were no civilian deaths. But what about a next time when another terrorist group might target her? What if civilians get caught in it then? This crap always happens because the Saint of Tionis is out there making enemies left and right. If she were living next door to you, do you actually think you could sleep at night?]

[For reals. I think she should wear an ankle monitor, and the neighbors should be informed. Not gonna lie, this bombing might crash my apartment value since I live kind of nearby.]

[These lunatics make me hate this country...]

[Can’t believe I’m the same nationality as you freaks! No wonder no one takes us seriously.]

[Don’t act like you’re all saints or some shit. If this happened near your place, you’d freak out too.]

[I wouldn’t spew the kind of crap you’re typing LOLS I know better]

[But bro, you’re hella fearless. Are we even allowed to say shit like that?]

[What, do we live under some dictatorship now? Did we do something wrong? We live in a democracy, with freedom! Without the right to say what we want, we wouldn’t be a democracy.]

[Freedom in democracy means freedom with responsibility, dumbass. You’re just using it as an excuse to spew out garbage.]

[GG get lost Eva simp.]

[You disgusting bastards. People like you can’t stand someone more successful than you, so you just have to tear them down.]

As a public figure, Evangeline had one of the most universally favorable images among streamers.

However, some found her rapid success unbearable after learning of her being born with a super-ultra silver spoon. They were the types who couldn’t stand to see someone else shine.

Humans were inherently selfish creatures. When hidden behind anonymity, they rarely felt fear.

Of course, even those comments were the watered-down version. The world was still full of people with beliefs stranger than fiction.

[Sigh. They say one out of five people is always garbage. Guess the Great Sage was right.]

[Wrong! It’s at least two or three out of five.]

The clueless masses kept yapping, as always. However, the ones most on edge were those in the Korean government. People didn’t seem to understand how much stability Evangeline's presence had brought to Korea. That ignorance drove officials crazy.

Regardless, the sitting President of Korea looked at the man sitting in front of him and gave a bitter smile as the man spoke, “So this is what the mess of public opinion looks like! Interesting.”

“I apologize. We’ll do everything we can to eliminate this nonsense as soon as possible—”

“No, it’s fine. In the end, I’m just an outsider. It’s not my place to argue with anyone about how Korea handles its own affairs.” Davey lowered his gaze. “That’s not why I came to see you today.”

The president didn't know how to respond.

“There’s a traitor in this country cooperating with the Patroshists.”

The president’s eyes widened with shock.

Evangeline had never publicly revealed where she lived. Even so, the attackers had found her with precision and launched a coordinated bombing to kill her.

“The last cafe incident used mana-based explosives. The most recent one was instead a full-blown bombing and act of terrorism. Whether the explosives were smuggled in or manufactured locally, it doesn’t matter. They used them to directly target Evangeline.”

Even for a terrorist group, pulling such an attack off in Korea should’ve been nearly impossible. That was especially so when considering the government had gone out of its way to protect her personal information.

“Which means...”

“There are spies inside NATO, the Central Union... and here. The Patroshists tried to distract me with that creature they released, but I don’t care about that. The first thing I’m going to do is wipe out every last person involved in this.”

The President’s face darkened. “If this escalates...”

“President,” Davey cut him off, his expression completely flat. “This already is an escalation.”

“But finding them in such a short time won’t be easy. Besides, if we just hand over personal data like this...”

“There will be a trail left by this operation, even if it’s minuscule. All you have to do is point out that one person. As for the backlash...” Davey paused for a moment, then smiled faintly. “You just have to make your choice, that's all. We’ve already given you the option, and even handed over the initiative.”

By that point, Davey had made more than enough concessions.

Whether they chose to break the alliance or release the personal data was entirely their own decision.

* * *

Just as Davey began hunting down the traitors within, the Patroshists’ leadership was feeling quite satisfied.

“The bait worked perfectly! While the Saint of Tionis is distracted chasing spies, we’ll be able to complete our objective.”

They weren’t fools, knowing full well just how reckless it’d be to face the Saint of Tionis head-on. Their goal was only to ensure the massive egg hidden deep within the underground cave hatched. The giant slime-like monsters appearing around the world were nothing more than fuel generators, feeding energy to accelerate the egg's incubation.

“The more the enemies attack those monsters, the more power we receive. It’s a flawless strategy.”

“Exactly! As long as the egg’s location stays hidden, it’s perfect.”

“Don’t worry. We’ve doubled, even tripled the concealment measures in place. No one will be able to find it.”

So long as the unhatched egg wasn’t discovered, nothing else mattered.

Even so, they couldn’t help but feel uneasy. To shake off the growing sense of dread, the executives established an additional contingency.

“Contact Lieutenant General Bonafrot Lucius. Make him escalate the situation and concentrate firepower in that sector.”

Bonafrot Lucius was a lieutenant general within NATO, whose goals coincidentally aligned with the Patroshists.

Of course, he wasn’t an official puppet of theirs. He was just a foolish man, unaware that he was being used. He belonged to a faction deeply dissatisfied with the way that Davey, an outsider, was taking all the glory for himself.

Unlike General Bedolph Pareeses, who was cooperative with Davey, Bonafrot insisted Earth should solve its own problems. The idea of Davey O’Rowane, a foreign entity, gaining even more power and influence was unacceptable to him.

He was a man who could be praised for his pride in self-reliance, or condemned for his obstinate ignorance. That was Bonafrot Lucius.

Still, realizing that the Alliance’s current firepower alone wasn’t enough to gain the upper hand against the Patroshists, he began discreetly searching for a potential defector within the terrorist group.

There were always traitors in organizations. He had heard about their plans, and how to deal with the massive creatures now roaming the world, from the traitor.

Naturally, he kept the operation secret. He had no intention of sharing the glory with anyone else.

Since the intel came from a traitor, he didn’t think there were any real issues. At a glance, it’d seem like Lieutenant General Bonafrot had done a decent job of obtaining intel.

After all, he had learned the plans and weaknesses of the Patroshist terrorist group through an insider who had turned against them, and carried out the operation independently.

However, he never considered the possibility that the traitor himself might be fake, a fabrication created by the upper ranks of the Patroshists.

On the surface, it looked like a logical plan. Everything fit together perfectly. That’s why Lieutenant General Bonafrot didn’t suspect anything. However, there was one thing he didn’t know—the exact mechanism behind the massive creature.

In truth, the way it supplied energy to the egg was simple. It absorbed all physical and magical energy directed at it, then transferred it to the egg. If left alone, the creature couldn’t absorb anything; it was nothing more than a half-baked living being.

In other words, the concentrated firepower and attack strategy Bonafrot had prepared to defeat the creature didn’t actually suppress it but instead served to supply it with all the energy it needed.

Crushing it in a single overwhelming blow, like Davey, would result in too much energy discharging all at once, making it less effective. That was why they had diverted Davey’s attention elsewhere and allowed the Alliance to carry out the operation on their own.

From the outside, it would look like the creature was slowly dying. In truth, it was simply the most efficient way to feed energy into the egg.

The plan was going perfectly. As long as the egg stayed hidden, and as long as Prince Davey remained tied up in Korea, that’d be enough.

Once the egg hatched, they believed their victory would be guaranteed. However, things rarely worked in one’s favor.

“B-Big trouble!!” someone shouted.

“What is it?”

“Something’s approaching this location!”

“What?!”

The underground bunker was practically their final hiding place. It was also the place that had the egg.

There was no way it could have been discovered! Even if Davey O’Rowane hadn’t been distracted, they were confident that the place would never be exposed. It made no sense for an intruder to possibly be headed straight for it.

If it were someone just passing by, there would’ve been no reason for alarm. Yet shockingly enough, the intruder was heading directly toward the location where the egg was hidden. The way it was approaching seemed to indicate that there had been no point in hiding from the beginning.

Confusion thickened around the room, one of the executives shouted, “Who is it?! Who the hell is this intruder?!”

“That, uh...” Trailing off, the man pulled a photo from inside his jacket and held it out.

Once he saw it, the executive felt a chill run down his spine.

The picture showed huge wings bursting out from what looked like a magic circle. They all knew exactly who that magic belonged to.

Evangeline O’Rowane. It was Davey O’Rowane’s daughter, the girl they had dared to provoke.

“T-That little bitch!! Why is she here?!”

“We’re not sure. According to intel, she flew straight here from Korea...”

“No way!! How the hell did she suddenly figure this place out?! Get out there and stop her! Distract her! Do whatever it takes!!”

A flurry of soldiers rushed out following his scream. Yet before they could accomplish anything, a deafening roar erupted, crushing everything around them.

Only then did the executives start to feel a creeping anxiety, telling them that maybe they should never have messed with Evangeline O’Rowane.

“B-Big trouble!!”

The bad news didn’t stop there.

“Davey O’Rowane is crushing all our energy-dispensing monsters!!”

“What?! He’s supposed to be in Korea! Why the hell is he anywhere near those things?!”